Welcome to episode seventeen of the Knowledge Exchange Podcast. This podcast series is a product supported by the Canadian Council on Learning – Canada’s leading organization committed to improving learning across Canada and in all walks of life.
I want to thank the great staff at CCL for their efforts with this project to advance our understanding of effective knowledge exchange to improve the learning of Canadians.
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The transcript may be downloaded here.
Daryl Rock has been a force for knowledge exchange and community development for almost two decades. His work at the Canadian Council on Learning has been breaking new ground and creating the conditions that enable individuals and groups to come together to build new value and understanding of complex and emerging issues. Although Daryl now lives in Vancouver, this interview took place in Ottawa – a city that he feels very much at home in. His focus of bringing people together for mutual benefit has created numerous long-term productive relationships that have benefited communities, institutions, and government agencies across areas of interest. The idea that knowledge exchange involves a “chemical reaction” is an important one – it’s not just putting all the ingredients together and hoping something happens; they have to come together in the right way, with the right conditions. I think there are some tasty ideas here – enjoy.
